From 19th-century erotica to the publicized images of the 1990s, photo curator Ewing offers a rich, involving archive of images culled from worldwide collections that presents an exciting, provocative record of the camera's infatuation with the human figure. Over 360 duotone and color photos.
The long-awaited sequel to Ewing's influential and highly successful "The Body" brings together over 300 color and duotone images that explore human intimacy in all its forms.
In this groundbreaking publication - the first full-scale study of the face in contemporary photography - William A. Ewing announces the death of the conventional portrait and the birth of a new approach to representation. In challenging accepted notions of the photographic portrait, these images offer up a provocative critique that makes us think ...
This book represents 100 of the finest and most fascinating examples of body-centred photography from the 20th century. Art photographers included are Stieglitz, Man Ray, Brassai, Cunningham, Brandt and Mapplethorpe, alongside greats of scientific image-making like Nilsson and Hutchings.
From 19th-century erotica to the publicized images of the 1990s, photo curator Ewing offers a rich, involving archive of images culled from worldwide collections that presents an exciting, provocative record of the camera's infatuation with the human figure. Over 360 duotone and color photos.
A selection of photographs of modern dancers in movements specifically choreographed for the camera is accompanied by an interview with the photographer.
Cutting across the boundaries of art and science are more than 100 astonishing images of the human body captured by state-of-the-art technology. There are stunning images of the skeletal, respiratory, nervous, reproductive, and digestive systems, and images that show processes such as cell division. 108 full-color photos and 10 b&w.
A lavishly illustrated retrospective of one of the greatest international fashion photographers who, from the 1950s until his death in the crash of TWA Flight 800 in 1996, worked with the top models, stylists and designers in the fashion industry.
A sequel to "The Body", this volume contains over 300 images, discovered during a lifetime's discriminating research into a century and a half of photography. They represent love and desire in all its many forms: the love of parents for their children and vice versa; the love between men and women; between men; between women. There is forbidden ...
Introduces the core function of the Message Printing Interface (MPI). This edition adds material on the C++ and Fortran 90 binding for MPI. It covers datatype extents and the extension to basic MPI functionality added by the MPI-2 Forum in the area of MPI datatypes and collective operations.
By the mid-1950s, Erwin Blumenfeld's fame had spread throughout the USA and Europe to make him the world's most highly paid photographer. This study discusses the life and work of this extraordinary man. Highly inventive, he developed his own idiosyncratic language, using solarization and negative printing, double and multiple exposures and a host ...
In early 1923, Edward Steichen was offered the prestigious position of chief photographer for "Vogue" and "Vanity Fair." This work features iconic images--including Gary Cooper, Greta Garbo, and Charlie Chaplin--that represent the high point in Steichen's career.
Here is dance--from classical ballet to the cancan, from rock and roll to thehokey-cokey--captured in 200 magnificently reproduced duotone plates selectedfrom tens of thousands in archives around the world. 200 duotone photographs.
A tribute to a major photographic genre's success in capturing in permanent form the most ephemeral of the arts. Over 200 reproduced duotone plates reveal dance in all its aspects - from many countries and periods, from classical ballet to rock and roll - photographed wherever dancers waltz, tango, tap-dance, pirouette, stomp, jive or kick up ...
The first volume in this set introduces the core function of the Message Printing Interface (MPI). This edition adds material on the C++ and Fortran 90 binding for MPI. It covers datatype extents and the extension to basic MPI functionality added by the MPI-2 Forum in the area of MPI datatypes and collective operations. The second volume covers ...
Flora Photographica is a striking and extravagantly designed album that celebrates the glorious beauty and pathos of flowers in all their multifarious forms. In these pages flowers speak to us with a greater intensity and more subtle modulation than even in nature itself. For each bloom shown has been observed with that acuity of vision which only ...
One of the finest fashion photographers of all time, Erwin Blumenfeld (1897-1969) was also one of the most innovative photographers of the 20th century. This long-awaited retrospective study brings together for the first time the life and entire range of the art of this extraordinary, multitalented man. 238 photos, 47 in color.
Flora Photographica is a bouquet, a striking and extravagantly designed album of images that celebrate the beauty and pathos of flowers in all their forms. In these pages flowers speak to us with a greater intensity and more subtle modulation than in nature itself. For each bloom shown here has been observed with an acuity of vision that only the ...
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Airborne: The New Dance Photography of Lois Greenfield
